Getting Started - Part II...

Jerome and Malinda McGovern

Jerome and Malinda still have the same job - Jerome is a paramedic, and Malinda works in the business office.

Stacia has grown up, and she joined the athletics career. She'll probably switch soon enough, she wants to be a Jack of All Trades.

Little Trevor has aged up, too, he's now going to school with his sisters.

I wish they'd taken their trailers with them from Mesa Valley. That ot suited them better.


Pablo Mendez

Nothing to report here - I just wanted to share a picture of him, because I realize I didn't have one before. But even that didn't work out well.

I don't know who made him originally, he was in my bin and the game used him for NPC. I just took him and made him Russell's brother, because I like his look. 

He is currently mooching off his brother and sister-in-law, as there's no money to put him in a house of his own.


Russell and Regina Mendez

Dominic and Colleen moved out soon after the new start. I think Russell and Regina will need a little time to get used to being alone again…

They do look cute together.


Dominic Mendez and Colleen Boucher

Colleen aged up family oriented, flirty (which she already was - I found most babysitters are both), vegetarian, charismatic and disciplined. Now she wants to be a martial arts master.

Dominic was already friendly and a couch potato, and loved the outdoors, but now he's also eco-friendly, and a snob. He wants to have a bottomless nectar cellar (only the best nectars, naturally).

I thought he'd be a redhead, like his mother, but he has random game-created brownish hair. He does have Regina's eyes.

Their new house is very tiny, but it will be enough for now. For the time being I'm not going to let anyone have babies. I want to figure out generation 5 before adding to generation 6.


Melanie Sommers and Blake Samson

Blake was a cute babysitter, but aging up didn't do him any favors… Although with a beard, his long chin doesn't look so bad any more.
Besides, he's got a good sense of humor, and that always helps. He's also friendly, family-oriented, handy and a natural cook. So Melanie is a pretty lucky girl!

Melanie herself is childish, a coward, easily impressed and friendly. She also loves the outdoors. She wants to be a fashion phenomenon, while Blake wants to be surrounded by family. I had Melanie join the stylist profession. Blake started work in the restaurant. He was in the music career, but that doesn't really make sense, since he doesn't even play an instrument.


Terra and Jake Sommers

Christopher still lives with his parents. He is a loner who hates the outdoors. He's also charismatic, a couch potato, and a genius.

He's currently working as a test subject in the science building.

Terra and Jake are about halfway up the career ladder. I haven't played them often enough, I guess.

For now, Christopher uses the two ground floor bedrooms as a study and a bedroom, and he's quite happy. It's like having a little apartment inside his parents' house.


Johanthan and Lucia Thao

I have to admit I adore Susannah Thao. 

Susannah is easily impressed, a technophobe and a genius.

Jonathan is a professional blogger, and Lucia still works in the science career. She's a carnivorous plant tender now.


Samantha and Tom Thao

Samantha and Tom also chose a very large house, so that they could continue to live with Jeremy, Danelle and Timothy.

I noticed that Jeremy and Jonathan still look very much alike. Jonathan has purple eyes, though, and Jeremy has darker skin. The difference in hair color is due to the meshes. If I give them the same hair, they have the exact same color.

Jeremy is still a traffic cop. Abbie is in the minor league in the sports career.

Timothy wants to be a Jack of All Trades when he grows up. He's a loner, clumsy, never nude and a light sleeper. Possibly the most useless set of traits I've seen so far…

Samantha got up to starter in the sports career before she retired, while Tom was a city council member.

Tom is now the oldest resident. He's 265 days old, and my lifespan is once again set to 300. Samantha is only a day younger, though.

So everyone is now settled in on Winchester Island.

Getting Started Again...

I didn't quite have the same cc when I restarted. Lots of new Store sets and not as many individual hairs and clothes, for one thing.
So many residents ended up wearing the wrong clothes. Also, a lot of people had aged up between the last time I took pictures and the re-start now. I decided to just circulate by alphabet from now on, and first fix everyone, find out a few traits, get them the right jobs...


Brandon and Judith Adams

Soon after the move to Winchester, Dexter Adams becomes a teenager. His traits are now: artistic, neurotic, good, and 'loves the outdoors'.
Dexter's lifetime wish is to become a 'home design hotshot'.

Meanwhile Judith has been wanting another baby, and the day after Dexter's birthday she finds out she's pregnant.

Judith and Brandon need jobs, so Brandon joins the music career and Judith becomes a teacher. And gets herself a new dress once the baby is born.

The baby is a girl: Gwendolyn. She's good and excitable. She's the first Sim born on Winchester Island.


Chen Adams and Angelina Bundy

Michael becomes a toddler. He's good, and a light sleeper. And adorable!

Angelina is already registered as a sculptor. Chen is a writer. It's a good thing they live in a tiny house, as they don't really earn enough to keep pixel and soul together...


Victor and Sun Young Adams

Sun Young completes her lifetime wish of becoming a "Master of the Arts". Victor is still working on his career as a hit movie composer.

* * *

Harmony and Yves Bernard

I noticed Yves has some wrinkles now that he's a full adult. He also got himself a new sweater, which is high time after all these years.

Collette is friendly, a light sleeper and a mooch. 
(She's probably very good at mooching - I think she looks irresistible).

She was also failing school - she claims the problem is with the school, not with the kids, so that's something that needs to be sorted.

Yves has worked his way up to paramedic. Harmony is still in the culinary career, she's now a line cook.


Julien Bernard and Ginny Fisk

Julien really needed a make-over. He still has that sullen look - nothing anyone can do about it short of plastic surgery. But I think his hair looks better now.

He wants to be a hit movie composer as well, just like Victor Adams.

Ginny is a former babysitter,  made by the game using Sims from my library - which is why she doesn't have the standard 'NPC-face'. 
She aged up to young adult now. She was never very pretty, but now she looks really pinched and 'old. On the other hand, I'm tired of the same old face for all my NPCs, so I'm happy with her. Plus, she has freckles. Always a bonus. This picture isn't half bad, she usually looks like she's just been ill for a year or two…

She aged up with the wish to be 'surrounded by family', and started working in Education.


Daniel and Sofia Harrell

Today is Rosanna's birthday - she ages up into a light sleeper, schmoozer, evil genius couch potato. Her lifetime wish is to become a chess legend. She took a job in the business career.

Bianca is clumsy, never nude and loves the outdoors.

Sofia works as a lab tech, but really wants to own a private museum filled with relics.

Daniel still wants to be a visionary, and still has the Hikon camera his father bought him for his teenage birthday. He was working as a report processor in the business career, but I made him register himself as a professional photographer.


Nathan and Abbie Harrell

Kelsey Harrell still lives with her second son Nathan, his wife Abbie and their son Leonard. Leonard is a teenager now. His traits are over-emotional, brave, good and heavy sleeper. Leonard wants to be a fire fighter super hero and save lives.

Kelsey retired when she turned elder a few days after her arrival. She was a sketch artist (level 8 in the forensic police career) and now enjoys her pension. She also got herself a whole new wardrobe, of course.

Abbie works in the bistro, as an ingredient taster, while Nathan has just registered himself as a writer.


Ho Sung and Hui Young Kim

The girls aged up to teenagers soon after arrival, too.

Xiu Ying aged up loner, disciplined, handy and athletic, and decides she wants to achieve physical perfection by mastering both athletics and martial arts.
Her sister Yue Xiulan aged up loner, perfectionist, daredevil and athletic, and wants to become a superspy.

In the meantime Huan Chao enjoys being the baby of the family. He loves the outdoors, but he also loves lounging on the sofa. Ideally, he'd like to have an outdoor television set with a rainproof, sheltered sofa - and he's just eccentric enough to invent one, one of these days.

The girls want to change their room and remove some of the 'baby stuff', but so far all they've done all day is test the school house rugs - since they weren't able to get in. (That explains all the F's I suppose - it's not just an excuse Colette dreamed up...)

Ho Sung is a team captain in the sports career, while Hui Young worked herself up to CEO of the local business company. She has now achieved her lifetime wish, but she's determined to take it two steps further now and reach the top. She's so close!

More Cottages

Back at the Mendez house - if you go the other way, there's another street ending in a courtyard with cottages.

Yi Quan, Wu and Gillian Kim live halfway that street.

* * *

Kelsey Harrell and her family (Nathan, Abbie and Leonard) moved into one of the houses at the end of the road. The house is built on a fairly steep hill.

* * *

And the Kim family (Ho Sung, Hui Young, Yue Xiulian, Xiu Ying and Huan Chao) moved into the second house on that hill.

The third lot is empty.

* * *

The second branch of that same street also ends in a dead end. Julien Bernard and his girlfriend Ginny Fisk have a house there.

Ginny was an NPC in Mesa Valey. She has quite an interesting face. And so does Julien, actually...

* * *

On the other side of the street is a large house. This is where Samantha and Tom Thao live, with Jonathan, Danelle and Timothy.

Tom and Samantha are the only elders on the island (although Kelsey is getting close). Along with Victor, they're the only Sims who were actually born in Fort Sim and who have survived both moves alive.

So that's fourteen families in total. And they're all in proper homes now, so let's see what life has in store for them from this moment on!

The Next Street

On the other side of the street, opposite the vineyard, is a larger three-bedroom house. The Mendez family moved in here, taking Colleen Bouchard (Dominic's teenage girlfriend) with them.

At the other end of the hill behind the vineyard is a small compound that used to house the millitary. One of the houses is abandoned (it's got a routing failure) and is now a junkyard (without visitors) for inventors.

Victor and Sun Young moved into one of the other houses, while Chen, Angelina and Michael took the other.

And that's three more - nine in total. And we're not even done yet. This is a lot harder than when the four households moved from Fort Sim to Mesa Valley!!

Winchester 'Town' Houses

There's a row of three houses near the town center (if you can call it that). they're all large houses with a view of the ocean.

The Sommers family have moved into one of these. Blake Samson, Melanie's boyfriend, moved to Winchester Farming with them and now lives in the basement.

The other two houses in this street are empty.

* * *

Between the town and the main road are some community lots, including the hospital.

Many of the community buildings are converted barns or small stone houses - the actual rabbit holes are in the basement.

* * *

There's a single cottage between the communty lots, which is where the Bernard family now lives. It's just Yves, Harmony and Colette - Julien moved out.

There's a little vineyard house that is standing empty. I don't know whether I want to convert it to a nectary/pub or have someone live there.

There's a huge wheat field in the middle of the island, which used to have two barns. One of them has been converted to a salon, and the other is now a home. The McGovern family moved in there.

So that's three more families settled.